How long have you supported your club?

[Meadow]

I may have asked this before but here goes. I was a late adopter of Wimbledon being in my middle 20s. I moved close to Plough Lane in 1987 and despite being a nominal QPR supporter since the mid 70s, attending matches at Plough Lane sealed it for me. I wasn't at the 1988 cup final because I had no clue as to how to get a ticket.

Motherhood and later single parenthood meant that my attendance at Selhurst was sporadic.

2002 was devastating. No right of appeal and we didn't abandon our club despite whatever the franchise apologists post.

6 promotions since reforming and one relegation that shouldn't have happened. I'm now 62 and feeling old.

Any franchise supporter who decides to respond will be blocked because I really can't deal with their bullshit.

 

[mozzavale]

I went my first Vale game around 86. There was an old Normid supermarket next to Vale (now Synectics). Mum n Dad always did the weekly shop on a Saturday. I saw people walking up to the ground with the big floodlights on, asked my Dad what was going on there. He jumped at the chance to get a few hours away from doing as he was told, put me 2 pairs of trousers on to keep me warm and off we went. I crawled under the turnstile, climbed up the slope to the only part of the ground with seats at the time (Railway Stand) and will never forget the feeling of first seeing the pitch, and the noise from the crowd. Completely hooked. That was 39 years ago. Since then I've seen us at our peak, and our lowest ebb.

 

[Son of Cod]

Got taken by old man when I was 6 to watch us lose 1-0 to Bolton in the 90/91 season so been a Town fan for 34 years. My second match was promotion to the second tier on the final day of that same season and then we spent one season between then and 2002/03 out of the second tier (which was a double Wembley winning season). 2003/04 onwards and we've gone completely the other way. Double dropped through the third tier and we've been here or in the NL ever since. I had a bit of a brief period for a few seasons around the turn of the millennium when I discovered girls and booze and Town slipped down the pecking order of priorities but otherwise they've been fairly consistent in my life.

 

[Gladders]

Since birth, you don't chose who you support!

 

[Cloudy]

My first game was Oct 1965 v Bournemouth & Boscombe United!

I’ve never had another team although went to QPR a few times around 1976/7 as I was living in the area. They were good to watch in that period but never came close to the passion you feel for your true club. I then played semi pro and senior football on Saturday afternoons but once that was over, I was back at Blundell Park with a season ticket, and travelling to a large number of away games. Hope to get a few more seasons in before my time is up

 

[GFC4EVA]

Went to my 1st Gills game in 1995 was hooked straight away, have missed about 5 home game since then excluding the covid season

 

[Meadow]

Since birth, you don't chose who you support!

Exactly. I chose QPR as a teenager because they were successful. Wimbledon chose me.

 

[GEORGE]

My first game was Oct 1965 v Bournemouth & Boscombe United!

I’ve never had another team although went to QPR a few times around 1976/7 as I was living in the area. They were good to watch in that period but never came close to the passion you feel for your true club. I then played semi pro and senior football on Saturday afternoons but once that was over, I was back at Blundell Park with a season ticket, and travelling to a large number of away games. Hope to get a few more seasons in before my time is up

They were known as Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic.